Imagine this: a burst of tweets show a bus explosion on the interstate, sending up a tremendous mushroom cloud, visible from miles away. How many people are hurt? Or dead? What caused the explosion? No one knows, because all the reporters decided to give the victims and bystanders space, and respected everyone’s need…
In a bizarre sequence of horrendous events, Denise Chiffon Berry was shot and killed near Los Angeles on Wednesday—seemingly at random—by a gunman who followed her and her son in their car.
Lindsey Combs, 32, was killed in her driveway Monday in Martinez, Ca. after a load of gravel in a truck's trailer tipped over and fell on top of her car while she was inside. Her four-year-old daughter reportedly watched as the gravel crushed her mother, who was two months pregnant.
A five-year-old boy fatally shot his nine-month-old brother in his crib on Monday, according to police in Elmo, Missouri.
One day after gunmen with Kalishnikovs attacked the Paris offices of satirical paper Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, killing 12 and injuring 10, the remaining staff at the paper announced that they will release an issue next week. "Stupidity will not win," columnist Patrick Pelloux told the AFP.
A four-year-old autistic boy from New York who had gone missing on Christmas Eve from a relative's house in South Carolina was found dead on Friday. Coroners confirmed that a drowned body found in a pond in Little River was that of Jayden Morrison.
On December 26, 2004, a tsunami struck dozens of countries around the Indian Ocean rim, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 228,000 people. Ten years on, countries around Asia commemorated the anniversary by holding prayer and memorial services for the near quarter million lives taken by the natural disaster.
Rapper Earl Hayes shot his wife Stephanie Moseley and then himself in their Los Angeles home yesterday in what cops are calling a murder-suicide. Hayes's friend Floyd Mayweather apparently watched the tragedy unfold on FaceTime. Now, TMZ is reporting that Hayes may have been jealous over his Moseley's alleged affair…
Right now, in a place you've never visited, a person you'll never know is dying. If he's dying in a particularly devastating way—and, more importantly, if he is leaving behind shareable content—it is possible that millions of strangers will mourn his or her death tomorrow. Why?
On Friday, police say an Indiana man shot his 13-year-old neighbor nine times for laughing at his misfortune, killing the boy.
Two men in Hamilton, Ohio fell to their deaths when painting a water tower, police say. They had been painting the tower when scaffolding that was holding them up "failed."
Indiana police arrested Joseph Oberhansley—a convicted killer on parole—last week in connection to the killing of Tammy Jo Blanton, who was stabbed to death in her Jeffersonville home. Oberhansley reportedly admitted to police that he ate part of Blanton's brain, heart, and lungs after killing her. "He further…
Kevin Adorno, 28, was on a bicycling trip from Maryland to Miami. He was planning to propose to girlfriend at the end of his trip. On the final leg of his journey, he stopped at a McDonald's in Vero Beach, Fla., where he was fatally stabbed by a homeless man. He was reportedly on the phone with his girlfriend at the…
A 32-year-old woman was found dead inside her SUV in a convenience store parking lot, where she was trying to get some extra sleep between shifts at her four part-time jobs, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports.
What is a good reason to keep a loaded gun on a nightstand near your preteen grandkids and fire indiscriminately at one of them in the dark? According to the United States' legal consensus, being afraid is enough, because the United States is full of irrational, scared, armed citizens, and God bless 'em, huh?
According to a police affidavit released today, a Wichita, Kan. foster parent was reminded of the 10-month-old girl he left in his car after seeing a crying child on an episode of Game of Thrones. The foster parent, Seth Jackson, 29, has been charged by police with first-degree murder. Jackson was smoking weed, eating…
After a two day search, police arrested Jessica Smith late Sunday on suspicion of aggravated murder in the death of her two-year-old daughter Isabella. The toddler was found in their Cannon Beach, Ore. hotel room Friday with her severely injured 13-year-old sister Alana.
Oregon police issued an arrest warrant for 40-year-old Jessica Smith today after her two-year-old daughter was found dead in their Cannon Beach, Ore. hotel room.
Today in unspeakable sadness, the story of Raphael Wittmann, a 14-year-old German boy with terminal cancer who broke both his legs and bit off his tongue in a head-on collision during a "dream ride" in a Porsche Boxster.
A Pittsburgh-area father has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after his daughters were crushed and killed by a dresser on the 4th of July. David Beatty, 28, allegedly waited 10-15 minutes before checking on two-year-old Brooklyn and three-year-old Ryeley after hearing a crash.
